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Salesforce takes AI assistants deeper into the enterprise with Einstein Voice
Ahead of its big Dreamforce conference next week, Salesforce.com Inc. today introduced a service called Einstein Voice that could give the so-far sluggish enterprise adoption of artificial intelligence assistants a boost. The main component of the offering is Einstein Assistant. It’s an AI modeled after consumer services such as Amazon Alexa that will enable workers to interact with ...
Aiming to put Android in millions of cars, Google teams up with leading automaker group
Google LLC is taking Android into a potentially highly lucrative but so far elusive new market. The technology giant today announced a partnership with the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance, the largest automaker group in the world, to bring the operating system to the dashboard displays included in the companies’ vehicles. The Wall Street Journal reported the collaboration will see Android ...
Former Intel president’s startup Ampere launches new chips to shake up the server market
Former Intel Corp. President Renee James is challenging her old company’s long-held leadership position in the data center. Her startup, Ampere Computing Inc., today launched two server processors that the company promises will one-up Intel in the efficiency department. The chips ship under the brand eMag and are based on designs from ARM Holdings, whose ...
NetApp buys Kubernetes startup StackPointCloud to strengthen cloud portfolio
NetApp Inc. today announced that it has acquired StackPointCloud Inc., a Seattle-based startup focused on making Kubernetes easier to use. Kubernetes is the go-to framework for managing software container clusters. The system has emerged as an essential component of modern cloud environments with the rise in container adoption among enterprises. Companies use containers to deploy applications ...
Salesforce fills key gap in its Quip productivity platform with Quip Slides
Quip, the productivity platform that Salesforce.com Inc. acquired for $750 million in 2016, offers many of the same capabilities as Office 365. It includes document and spreadsheet editing tools as well as various collaboration features, but has so far lacked an equivalent to PowerPoint for creating business presentations. Salesforce today is filling the gap with the introduction ...
DarwinAI launches from stealth to automate artificial intelligence development
Artificial intelligence projects usually rely on existing code. Engineers sift through the AI models available from sources such as academic publications, pick the one deemed most suitable and then customize it to their requirements. Canada’s DarwinAI Inc. wants to reduce the amount of work involved in the last two steps. The startup today launched from stealth with ...
Google debuts Cloud Inference API for large-scale time series analytics
Google LLC today unveiled Cloud Inference API, a new managed analytics service capable of carrying out hundreds of thousands of queries per second. The offering is designed for processing time series data, information made up of numerous individual measurements arranged chronologically in the order they’re generated. This method of collating data lends itself to fields ...
Apple reportedly taps LG to curb Samsung’s role in new iPhone production
Apple Inc. has reportedly tapped LG Display Co. to produce some of the displays for its latest iPhones in a bid to become less reliant on rival Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. The information appeared today in South Korean business journal The Investor, which cited anonymous sources. The news follows multiple other reports that indicated Apple may partner with ...
Scale and nuTonomy open-source massive AI dataset for self-driving cars
Scale Labs Inc. and Aptiv PLC’s nuTonomy group, two influential players in the autonomous vehicle ecosystem, today open-sourced a massive research dataset designed to aid self-driving car initiatives. Autonomous vehicles rely on artificial intelligence models to make navigation decisions. Those AI models, in turn, must be trained with large amounts of sample information to achieve the necessary ...
Uber looks to boost self-driving car initiative with new $150M Toronto investment
Uber Technologies Inc. has allocated $150 million to growing its engineering operations in Toronto as part of a newly announced expansion that will boost its self-driving car initiative and other key projects. The plan was made public today in conjunction with a visit to the city by Uber Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi. According to the ...